Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 20 January 2022

Public Accounts Committee

2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 33: Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media
Programme E - Broadcasting

9:30 am

Photo of Matt CarthyMatt Carthy (Cavan-Monaghan, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

I thank Ms Forbes and her team for joining us today.

I want to return to the employment status issue, and particularly the difference between the self-employed contractually and directly employed that has been the matter of some controversy. The Eversheds Sutherland report, which has been discussed, identified 157 people who had what were described as "attributes akin to employment" or "attributes akin to both employment and self employment" that resulted in 82 people being offered contracts.

This report then served as the basis for a voluntary disclosure to Revenue that we learned about at our previous discussions. In that discussion, Ms O'Shea described an initial settlement of €1.22 million. In her opening statement, Ms Forbes describes this as "a settlement". I would like clarification, in the first instance, as to whether any additional payment has been made to Revenue since we last met and whether Ms Forbes expects that additional payments might have to be made.

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